Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Bart D. Ehrman investigates how the earliest Christians remembered and passed on stories about Jesus before the Gospels took shape. Examining the processes of memory, change, and invention, this book offers a focused exploration of how traditions about the Savior developed.
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Jesus Before the Gospels explores how stories about Jesus were remembered, transmitted, changed, and developed among the earliest Christians.
Bart D. Ehrman focuses on the relationship between memory and the accounts that eventually became the Gospels.
The book considers how remembered traditions could preserve, adapt, or generate stories about the Savior.
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